The Capitol Years is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1998. A lush tapestry of orchestral arrangements and intimate vocals that define classic American standards. 'The Capitol Years' is significant not only for its comprehensive selection of Sinatra's works during his golden era but also for its commercial success, reaching high positions on various album charts. This compilation reintroduced Sinatra's timeless classics to a new generation, emphasizing his influence on artists across genres and contributing to the resurgence of interest in traditional pop music. Here's what makes it worth your time and what to listen to next.

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Disc 1

• 1 The Girl Next Door 2:39
• 2 They Can’t Take That Away From Me Standout 1:59
• 3 Violets for Your Furs 3:07
• 4 Someone to Watch Over Me 2:59
• 5 My One and Only Love 3:14
• 6 Little Girl Blue 2:54
• 7 Like Someone in Love 3:13
• 8 A Foggy Day 2:41
• 9 It Worries Me 2:55
• 10 I Can Read Between the Lines 2:50
• 11 I Get a Kick Out of You 2:56
• 12 My Funny Valentine Standout 2:31

Disc 2

• 1 Jeepers Creepers 2:24
• 2 Taking a Chance on Love 2:14
• 3 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 2:17
• 4 Lean Baby 2:34
• 5 I Love You 2:28
• 6 I’m Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter 2:29
• 7 Get Happy 2:27
• 8 All of Me 2:08
• 9 How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me 2:44
• 10 Why Should I Cry Over You 2:41
• 11 Sunday 2:31
• 12 Just One of Those Things 3:14

Disc 3

• 1 In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 3:02
• 2 Mood Indigo 3:32
• 3 Glad to Be Unhappy 2:39
• 4 I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) 3:45
• 5 Deep in a Dream 2:51
• 6 I See Your Face Before Me 3:27
• 7 Can’t We Be Friends? 2:50
• 8 When Your Lover Has Gone 3:12
• 9 What Is This Thing Called Love? 2:36
• 10 Last Night When We Were Young 3:18
• 11 I’ll Be Around 3:01
• 12 Ill Wind 3:48
• 13 It Never Entered My Mind 2:43
• 14 Dancing on the Ceiling 3:00
• 15 I’ll Never Be the Same 3:07
• 16 This Love of Mine 3:35

Disc 4

• 1 I’ve Got the World on a String 2:14
• 2 Three Coins in the Fountain 3:07
• 3 Love and Marriage 2:41
• 4 From Here to Eternity 3:01
• 5 South of the Border 2:52
• 6 Rain 3:27
• 7 The Gal That Got Away 3:12
• 8 Young at Heart 2:53
• 9 Learnin’ the Blues 3:04
• 10 My One and Only Love 3:15
• 11 Love Is the Tender Trap 3:00
• 12 Don’t Worry ’bout Me 3:07

Disc 5

• 1 You Make Me Feel So Young 2:58
• 2 It Happened in Monterey 2:37
• 3 You’re Getting to Be a Habit With Me 2:19
• 4 You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me 2:50
• 5 Too Marvelous for Words 2:33
• 6 Old Devil Moon 3:57
• 7 Pennies From Heaven 2:45
• 8 Love Is Here to Stay 2:42
• 9 I’ve Got You Under My Skin Standout 3:45
• 10 I Thought About You 2:32
• 11 We’ll Be Together Again 4:27
• 12 Makin’ Whoopee 3:09
• 13 Swingin’ Down the Lane 2:55
• 14 Anything Goes 2:45
• 15 How About You? 2:46

Disc 6

• 1 Close to You 3:40
• 2 P.S. I Love You 4:24
• 3 Love Locked Out 2:45
• 4 Everything Happens to Me 3:22
• 5 It’s Easy to Remember 3:37
• 6 Don’t Like Goodbyes 4:52
• 7 With Every Breath I Take 3:41
• 8 Blame It on My Youth 3:00
• 9 It Could Happen to You 3:16
• 10 I’ve Had My Moments 3:50
• 11 I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night 3:28
• 12 The End of a Love Affair 4:09

Disc 7

• 1 Night and Day 4:02
• 2 I Wish I Were in Love Again 2:31
• 3 I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ 3:13
• 4 I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plans 2:26
• 5 Nice Work If You Can Get It 2:24
• 6 Stars Fell on Alabama 2:41
• 7 No One Ever Tells You 3:28
• 8 I Won’t Dance 3:27
• 9 Lonesome Road 3:57
• 10 At Long Last Love 2:27
• 11 You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To 2:07
• 12 I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good 3:25
• 13 From This Moment On 3:56
• 14 If I Had You 2:39
• 15 Oh! Look at Me Now 2:50

Disc 8

• 1 Where Are You? 3:30
• 2 The Night We Called It a Day 3:27
• 3 I Cover the Waterfront 2:59
• 4 Maybe You’ll Be There 3:06
• 5 Laura 3:27
• 6 Lonely Town 4:11
• 7 Autumn Leaves 2:51
• 8 I’m a Fool to Want You 4:50
• 9 I Think of You 3:03
• 10 Where Is the One? 3:12
• 11 There’s No You 3:45
• 12 Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home 2:57

Disc 9

• 1 Come Fly With Me 3:18
• 2 Around the World 3:20
• 3 Isle of Capri 2:29
• 4 Moonlight in Vermont 3:31
• 5 Autumn in New York 4:36
• 6 On the Road to Mandalay 3:29
• 7 Let’s Get Away From It All 2:10
• 8 April in Paris 2:50
• 9 London by Night 3:30
• 10 Brazil 2:55
• 11 Blue Hawaii 2:43
• 12 It’s Nice to Go Trav’ling 3:49

Disc 10

• 1 Hey! Jealous Lover 2:24
• 2 Everybody Loves Somebody 3:46
• 3 Something Wonderful Happens in Summer 3:16
• 4 Half as Lovely, Twice as True 3:09
• 5 You’re Cheatin’ Yourself 2:38
• 6 You’ll Always Be the One I Love 2:59
• 7 You Forgot All the Words 3:24
• 8 How Little We Know 2:44
• 9 Time After Time 3:31
• 10 Crazy Love 2:54
• 11 Wait for Me (“Johnny Concho” Theme) 2:54
• 12 If You Are but a Dream 3:58
• 13 So Long, My Love 2:50
• 14 It’s the Same Old Dream 3:06
• 15 I Believe 2:33
• 16 Put Your Dreams Away 3:12

Disc 11

• 1 Only the Lonely 4:10
• 2 Angel Eyes 3:46
• 3 What’s New? 5:13
• 4 It’s a Lonesome Old Town 4:18
• 5 Willow Weep for Me 4:49
• 6 Good‐Bye 5:45
• 7 Blues in the Night 4:44
• 8 Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry 4:00
• 9 Ebb Tide 3:18
• 10 Spring Is Here 4:47
• 11 Gone With the Wind 5:15
• 12 One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) 4:23

Disc 12

• 1 Come Dance With Me 2:31
• 2 Something’s Gotta Give 2:37
• 3 Just in Time 2:24
• 4 Dancing in the Dark 2:26
• 5 Too Close for Comfort 2:34
• 6 I Could Have Danced All Night 2:40
• 7 Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) 1:54
• 8 Day In – Day Out 3:24
• 9 Cheek to Cheek 3:06
• 10 Baubles, Bangles and Beads 2:46
• 11 The Song Is You 2:43
• 12 The Last Dance 2:09

Disc 13

• 1 When No One Cares 2:45
• 2 A Cottage for Sale 3:19
• 3 Stormy Weather 3:23
• 4 Where Do You Go? 2:35
• 5 I Don’t Stand a Ghost of Chance With You 3:19
• 6 Here’s That Rainy Day 3:37
• 7 I Can’t Get Started 4:03
• 8 Why Try to Change Me Now? 3:44
• 9 Just Friends 3:42
• 10 I’ll Never Smile Again 3:48
• 11 None but the Lonely Heart 3:42
• 12 The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) 3:05

Disc 14

• 1 Look to Your Heart 3:10
• 2 Anytime, Anywhere 2:45
• 3 Not as a Stranger 2:47
• 4 Our Town 3:16
• 5 You, My Love 2:56
• 6 Same Old Saturday Night 2:31
• 7 Fairy Tale 2:59
• 8 The Impatient Years 3:14
• 9 I Could Have Told You 3:18
• 10 When I Stop Loving You 2:56
• 11 If I Had Three Wishes 2:56
• 12 I’m Gonna Live Till I Die 1:54

Disc 15

• 1 Nice ’n’ Easy 2:47
• 2 That Old Feeling 3:35
• 3 How Deep Is the Ocean 3:16
• 4 I’ve Got a Crush on You 2:18
• 5 You Go to My Head 4:29
• 6 Fools Rush In 3:22
• 7 Nevertheless 3:19
• 8 She’s Funny That Way 3:57
• 9 Try a Little Tenderness 3:23
• 10 Embraceable You 3:25
• 11 Mam’selle 2:48
• 12 Dream 2:55

Disc 16

• 1 Day by Day 2:41
• 2 Sentimental Journey 3:26
• 3 Almost Like Being in Love 2:03
• 4 Five Minutes More 2:36
• 5 American Beauty Rose 2:23
• 6 Yes Indeed! 2:37
• 7 On the Sunny Side of the Street 2:42
• 8 Don’t Take Your Love From Me 1:59
• 9 That Old Black Magic 4:05
• 10 Lover 1:54
• 11 Paper Doll 2:09
• 12 I’ve Heard That Song Before 2:31

Disc 17

• 1 All the Way 2:55
• 2 High Hopes 2:43
• 3 Talk to Me 3:04
• 4 French Foreign Legion 2:03
• 5 To Love and Be Loved 3:53
• 6 River, Stay ’way From My Door 2:39
• 7 Witchcraft 2:54
• 8 It’s Over, It’s Over, It’s Over 2:42
• 9 Ol’ Mac Donald 2:42
• 10 This Was My Love 3:28
• 11 All My Tomorrows 3:15
• 12 Sleep Warm 2:43

Disc 18

• 1 When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) 2:02
• 2 Blue Moon 2:52
• 3 S’posin’ 1:48
• 4 It All Depends on You 2:03
• 5 It’s Only a Paper Moon 2:20
• 6 My Blue Heaven 2:04
• 7 Should I 1:31
• 8 September in the Rain 2:59
• 9 Always 2:17
• 10 I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love With Me 2:25
• 11 I Concentrate on You 2:23
• 12 You Do Something to Me 1:33

Disc 19

• 1 When the World Was Young 3:49
• 2 I’ll Remember April 2:50
• 3 September Song 4:23
• 4 A Million Dreams Ago 2:42
• 5 I’ll See You Again 2:44
• 6 There Will Never Be Another You 3:13
• 7 Somewhere Along the Way 3:03
• 8 It’s a Blue World 2:51
• 9 These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) 4:00
• 10 As Time Goes By 3:17
• 11 I’ll Be Seeing You 2:49
• 12 Memories of You 3:55

Disc 20

• 1 The Nearness of You 2:44
• 2 Hidden Persuasion 2:26
• 3 The Moon Was Yellow 3:02
• 4 I Love Paris 1:52
• 5 Monique (song from “Kings Go Forth”) 3:18
• 6 Chicago 2:12
• 7 Love Looks So Well on You 2:41
• 8 Sentimental Baby 2:38
• 9 Mr. Success 2:43
• 10 They Came to Cordura 3:02
• 11 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 3:00
• 12 Something Wonderful Happens in Summer 3:12

Disc 21

• 1 Day In, Day Out 3:20
• 2 I’m Walking Behind You 2:58
• 3 Don’t Make a Beggar of Me 3:04
• 4 Ya Better Stop 2:36
• 5 Take a Chance 2:40
• 6 Day In, Day Out 3:08
• 7 Memories of You 2:54
• 8 If It’s the Last Thing I Do 4:00
• 9 There’s a Flaw in My Flue 2:41
• 10 Wait Till You See Her 3:10
• 11 Nothing in Common 2:33
• 12 Same Old Song and Dance 2:54
• 13 How Are Ya Fixed for Love 2:28
• 14 Where or When 2:29
• 15 It All Depends on You 2:04
• 16 I Couldn’t Care Less 3:02
• 17 The Song Is You 2:57
• 18 The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else 3:06

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